An Introduction to Programming in PHP: Stomping Zombies with Variables, Loops, Functions and More

by John Rhea

Start taking down the zombie horde with rapid fire web development programs. This book introduces you to PHP and a wide variety of beginner programming topics like variables, conditional statements, loops and functions.

You’ll understand the different types of variables available to you and how to create and utilize them for maximum damage to the undead.

We’ll discuss conditional statements (if/then statements) and talk about how to execute different code depending on whether something is true or not such as “There’s a zombie gnawing on your head!”

We’ll loop-dee-loop around the horde as we define and demonstrate the three kinds of PHP loops.

And finally, using functions and reusable code, we’ll land sucker punch after sucker punch after sucker punch on every zombie shuffling toward you.

While this book presents these concepts using PHP syntax and information, nearly all of the concepts are universal to programming languages everywhere.

So come along for a jaunt through the apocalypse and stock your armory with plenty of programming tools and PHP finery. Next stop ending the apocalypse!

48 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 8, 2021

Reviews

[Dani · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had this book for class and I have to say it’s a great book to learn PHP. It’s set up to read like a regular novel and the author’s humor, and use of zombies to help teach programming, make you read through this rather quickly. I had a hard time stopping because I was enjoying reading this so much. It’s a generalized guide, but you get a lot of informa from this book. Definitely give this a try if PHP is something you’ve wanted to learn and want a gentle start into the coding language.